Archive for 'Strategy' Category
Acceleration of Eco-Operation
31 July 2009Acceleration of Eco-Operation is a new report published (free report : the kind I like) by the Business Performance Management Forum. I think it would be well worth your time to register and download the report if you want to keep up with the trendiness of green washing everything. I will read and review the […]
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Book Review – The Supply-Based Advantage
22 May 2009At long last, I am posting the review of this book The Supply-Based advantage by Stephen Rogers about which the author had contributed a summary some time ago. Actually, this is the second time I am writing the review because unfortunately, the first one was deleted from my hard drive (pesky, pesky little thing).
When […]
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Swine flu and Preparedness
28 April 2009As you very well know, Swine flu is in the news and its effect on the supply chains of the world is a foregone conclusion regardless of whether it peters out and dies or it becomes a full blown pandemic. As I’ve said numerous times on this blog, extended multi-country supply chains increase the number […]
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Webinar notes: Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage
21 April 2009I attended the Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage seminar by Professor Yossi Sheffi today. Some notes from that webinar:
Examples of disruptions that companies have faced and a firm’s reaction to them:
Disruption of the electronic supply Chain illustrated through the March 2000 Philips fire and the effect that it had on Nokia and Ericsson supply […]
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The Banking Crisis is over…
13 April 2009More quickly that it began, the Banking crisis is over screams the headline from this Time article. You might as well believe it now that the experts journalists have declared it over:
But, the great banking crisis of 2008 is over. It began last September 15 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and bottomed when Citigroup […]
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Webinar: Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage
6 April 2009Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage is a free webinar being hosted by Professor Yossi Sheffi courtesy of Manufacturing Alumni.
The ability to bounce back from unexpected supply chain disruptions is the essence of “resilience”. Resilience can be achieved by building in redundancy (e.g., in inventories, capacity, and suppliers), but such redundancies are expensive. […]
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The IBM Brand Promise
13 March 2009As you might know, I am an IBMer now by way of acquisition of my erstwhile firm ILOG. In addition to reading The Supply-Based Advantage: How to Link Suppliers to Your Organization’s Corporate Strategy which was discussed in the last guest post - Supply Based Management in Tough Times, I am also reading All Customers […]
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